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I only chained up one time, ever. Somebody gave me a set of chains that fit my Ford Ranger pickup one time, so when we got a pretty good snow I decided to try them out. Put them on and drove to the beer store and back with no problems, and no shoveling. But there have been a few times that I wished I had some in the truck, because I would have sure used them. Like this time on rt. 60 in West Virginia-

I don't know, I didn't ask them. Didn't hear about her father, sad, but that's the best way you can go I guess.

Raining here now, flash flood warning until 2 am.

I talked to the couple that brought this beautiful B 53 too. I liked it because as I told them "it's nice to see a B model that's not red". I told them that I used to have a B-53S myself, it was a cement mixer, came from Roanoke- and it was red. And I sold it waaaay too cheap. They said theirs used to be a mixer too, and it came from Roanoke, so it might have come from the same place. This one still has the quadruplex transmission in it, but a friend of theirs had changed the rears for them, and it had 3.55's in it. The guy said it might be the fastest B model on the east coast, it would run 70+ with no problem. Mines had 7.?? something rears, and you had to stand on it to run 55mph.

I would love to have a little single axle flatbed like this to pull behind the big green International that runs now. The sign in the window said the owner was from New Alexandria, Pa, which is also the home of Watt's Mack. The B-71 was a 1956 and the trailer was a 1946 Fruehauf. Not sure what year the golf cart is.

Happy birthday and happy anniversary!

yeah, I was pondering the original post and somebody replied "think John Denver" and I say "oh yeah, now I get it" 🤣

Holy sh- uh, mackerel!

The H-60 and H-61 were called the "cherry picker" because they were so tall. I think they shortened the H-63s and H-67s by 11 inches. Here's an H-61 and an H-63.

Yes it does! I tightened them up in the same picture to show a better comparison of the size difference. this is the same picture, I didn't change the size of anything, just cut one truck and slid it over closer to the other.

I just happen to have one- There's lots of duplicates, but I had plenty of film...

yes, we are fine, thank you for asking. they had tornado warnings here the day before we went to Winchester, and while we were there our neighbor told Zina they were under another tornado warning here, but we had no damage here except for the tree that I cut out of the road, the tree that I should have left in the road. But no, i'm glad I cut it, I was the idiot for not wearing long sleeves, long pants, gloves, and sensible shoes. 😂

wonder how many times you've chained up?

Thought this was pretty good- took me a minute to get it.

Farmer52's MH and an H-63. I thought I posted this picture yesterday, but maybe I dreamed it. I couldn't find it.

...and that poison oak, or poison ivy still ain't looking much better!

Yessir, I think I got everything that was there. Except maybe some that I already have 16 pictures of somewhere. I took some with the phone, some with the back-up camera, and some with the back-up back-up camera. I didn't even take my best camera because I didn't want to take any chances with getting it wet. I have not downloaded any of them yet, I'll do that while Zina's working. I try to do stuff with her when she's not working - you know the deal, "happy wife..." 😊

Congratulations Bob, I hope you enjoy your retirement - I know I enjoy mine! 😊

We decided to ride up to Winchester and see what was going on. A few trucks are already here, calling for rain tomorrow, but Saturday is still looking good so far.

Just some random antique truck enthusiast who happened to be passing by.

No, but it does look slightly better now than it did. No rain tomorrow, just cloudy, but there's a chance all day on Friday. Then nothing Saturday between 10am and 5pm.

Oh, here's a picture from Macungie last year that I forgot to post. Did I mention I can photochop photos again?

that's exactly what my son said!..the "no good deed'' part, not the Miller Lite part.

I was sitting here minding my own binness drinking coffee one morning a week ago. Heard the school bus go by about 7:15, as usual. I let the dogs out for their post meal poops and when I went out on the back porch I heard a backup beeper just down the road. I watched until I could see, and it was the bus backing up the road. It turned around in our biggerized driveway and went back the way it came. So I got in the pickup and rode down the road to see if there was a particular reason that the bus had backed up and turned around. And I saw this- I had already started cutting on it when I remembered that I should take pictures for evidence. I thought sure the school bus driver had radioed the situation in to headquarters, and a crew was rushing to the scene at that moment. But when I was outside around 10 o'clock I saw a car backing up. So I rode down to investigate again, it was only about a quarter of a mile or so down the road. This time I put gas and oil in the chainsaw and took it with me, thinking surely somebody had removed that tree by then, but just in case... and sure enough, the tree was still there, hadn't been touched. So I proceded to cut it up enough to get it out of the road. Unfortunately, it had a big poison oak vine growing up it. All the greenery on the tree you see there is poison oak. And it doesn't even usually bother me unless I pretty much just rub it on myself, but I had to get right up in it to cut the tree. With short pants on, no gloves, like an idiot. So yeah, I broke out in several places. So now it's itching like crazy. I told my sister I was putting calamine lotion on it and said "oh that crap ain't no good, you need some of that $18 a tube stuff called tecnu". So Zina got me a tube of that Tecnu, for $18. It might work if you used it first thing, but I didn't even know the poison oak had gotten me for a couple of days. Anyway, it didn't seem to help much, so I went back to putting calamine lotion on it. But I think that was extra powerful poison oak on that tree too, that vine was as big as your wrist down near the bottom of the tree.